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5 Maps And Charts That Will Surprise You
In the article, “5 Maps and Charts That Will Surprise You” by Ezra Klein, the chart showing Africa in comparison to some other countries, was subtitled “Africa is much bigger than you think”. This subtitle is a little bit misleading since most people know that Africa is a massive continent. For hundreds of years, people have thought that Africa is much smaller than it actually is, according to most world maps. According to “5 Maps and Charts That Will Surprise You” by Ezra Klein, “Most maps you see are based on the ‘Mercator projection’, so named for Gerardus Mercator, who came up with it in 1559… Under the Mercator projection, for instance, Africa looks to about the same size ass Greenland; it’s actually 14 times larger,” (Chart 3). The chart

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